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                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

SUBJECT

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Index 1
About The Photo On The Cover 2
About The Author Harry "Butch" Shingledecker 2
How Sample Run Got Its Name 3
The First Residents of Sample Run 4
First and Second Sample Run 5
The Sample Run Post Office 5
The Sample Run Schools 5
The Sample Run Church 6
The Sample Run Cemetery 7
Baseball Fields in Sample Run 7
The Sample Run Swimming Hole 8
The Sample Run Reservoir 8
Dead Man's Curve 9
About Dixon Road 9
About The Old Indiana Road and Route 286 9
The History of Two-Lick Creek 10
The Origin and Flow of Two-Lick Creek 10
The Two-Lick Becomes Polluted and Then Clean Again 10
Floods on the Two-Lick Creek 11
Second Sample Run Floods 12
The Indiana to Clymer Streetcar 13
The Train Wreck at Sample Run 13
The Streetcar Robbery Incident 13
The Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad 13
The Sample Run Power Plant 14
The Sample Run Coal Mine Disaster 15
Eyewitness to the Mine Explosion 15
Coal Dust in their blood ( The cycle is broken ), Jerry Hetrick 16
The Sample Run Trail 17
The Paull-Patton Family Story 18
How Clymer Came To Be 19
Clymer is Named 19
About Penns Manor School 20
About The Coal Mining Industry In Clymer 20
The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation 20
About Samuel and Rembrandt Peale 20
About The Names Chiseled Atop High Rock 21
The Ghost Face 21
Turtle Rock 21
What Is Boney Coal And What Were The Boney Dumps? 22
The Boney (or Bony) Dumps Above Sample Run 22
Black Lung Disease 23
The Clymer Brick and Fire Clay Company 23
The Geography of Indiana County 23
The Origin of Coal Deposits 23
The Original Inhabitants of Indiana County 24
Present-Day Photos of Sample Run 25
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 26
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 27
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 28
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 29
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 30
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 31
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 32
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 33
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 34
Past and Present Photos of Folks in Sample Run 35
Works Cited and Credits 36
Past and Present Residents of Sample Run 37
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS BOOK 38

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